Flipper
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Flipper may refer to:
- Flipper (anatomy), a limb on some animals
- A speculator who buys an asset in order to sell it quickly with a profit (see Flipping)
- A scuba diver's fin
- Film and television series featuring the intelligent bottlenose dolphin named Flipper:
- Flipper (1963 film), directed by James B. Clark
- Flipper's New Adventure, a 1964 film directed by Leon Benson
- Flipper (1964 TV series), which originally ran from 1964-1967
- Flipper (1995 TV series), including Jessica Alba
- Flipper (1996 film), a 1996 film starring Elijah Wood as the main character, Sandy
- Flipper and Lopaka, a 2001 Australian animated TV series, with additional stories made in 2005
- Flipper (band), a punk band from San Francisco
- Die Flippers, a German Schlager group.
- Flipper, a part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball up higher on the game surface
- Flipper, another name for a pinball machine in Germany or France
- Flipper, the name of the GPU chip, produced by ATi, that is used in the Nintendo Gamecube videogame console
- Flipper (cricket), a type of delivery bowled by a wrist spin bowler
- Association Flipper, a game invented in Groningen in the Netherlands in 2006 by Ned Kelly of Mansfield Road Football Club
- Henry Ossian Flipper (1856–1940), the first African American cadet to graduate from West Point
- Flipper, A hiker that skips a section of trail to come back and hike it later in the season.
- Flippers, a fried dough pastry popular on Cape Cod, also known as malasadas.
- Flipper, a cooking implement, also known as a turner (or, loosely, a spatula).